Monthly Archives: September 2010
Editorial: Comfort Games

Oh woe is me, my little Lusi-sprites. I think I may be sick. Not just “sick of Lusipurr’s crap”, but legitimately ill. Blame the sick guy whose desk is beside mine, blame my boyfriend who had a case of the death last week, or blame Lusipurr (just because). This has lead me to think (and more »
Editorial: Should Halo Die?
Halo: Reach was recently released to numerous outstanding reviews. I picked it up myself and really enjoy the game so far, but it got me thinking: do we really need more Halo games? Even Bungie is getting out of the series, as the company announced Reach will be the last Bungie developed Halo game. Now, more »
Editorial: On This, the Occasion of the Playstation X’s Fifteenth Birthday, We Pause to Reflect on the Passing of the JRPG

My goodness, but the time it flies! As many of you will be aware (and some of you won’t) this past week marked the fifteenth birthday of brand Playstation, and by extension the fifteenth birthday of Sony’s small grey miracle box of seemingly limitless potential. It is funny to think that it has been a more »
MAP Episode 82: Wrath of the Great Potato
News: Names, Names, and Name-Dropping

This Week’s “Why Squeenix Sucks” If you are a fan of Final Fantasy XIII, you are an idiot. You are so much of a blithering idiot that even the people who stand to benefit from your stupidity have given up on you. In a recent interview with a Japanese magazine, XIII’s director Motomu Toriyama more »
Editorial: Lost in Translation (Now With Less Bill Murray)
Editorial: This is the game that never ends. Yes it goes on and on my friends….

Good day, you adorable Lusi-sprites. Some misinformed, intellectually underdeveloped boobs have given me just a smidge of flack for my unapologetic love for The Sims games and similar-ish games (SimCity, Harvest Moon, FF: Martin Luther King, etc) because they are not games, there is no point, no ending, no successful rescue of the princess from more »
Review: Mafia II

2k Games allows players to experience the heydays of the Italian Mafia with the recent release of Mafia II. Mafia II takes place between 1945 and 1951 places players in the shoes of Vito Scaletta, a World War II veteran and son of Sicilian immigrants as he enters world of the Italian Mafia in the more »
Editorial: In Defence of Being an Indecisive Prick

There comes a point in every gent’s life when he must stop, take stock and assess his priorities. Ask himself where he’s headed, and whether or not the pursuits to which he is engaged are productive ventures or futile dead-ends, as frivolous as a Texan lawsuit. I had one such moment this week when I more »


